John Cleese Quotes
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
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I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
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Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
